Matt Kerr is an Associate Professor of Mathematics at Washington University, St Louis, and an established researcher in Hodge theory and algebraic geometry. His work is supported by an FRG grant from the National Science Foundation. He is also co-author (with M. Green and P. Griffiths) of Mumford-Tate Groups and Domains: Their Geometry and Arithmetic and Hodge Theory, Complex Geometry, and Representation Theory.